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Parke-Bernet Galleries was an American auction house, active from 1937 to 1964, when Sotheby's purchased it. The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift.
Anderson Galleries began as an auctioner of books, prints, and occasionally called Anderson Auction Company. It was founded by John Anderson Jr. in 1900 and later renamed Anderson Galleries. [ 1 ] In 1917, the gallery began selling antiques and art at their new location on Park Avenue and 59th Street. [ 2 ]
The American Art Association (AAA) was founded by James F. Sutton (President of AAA), R. Austin Robertson, and Thomas Kirby (1846–1924) in 1883. [4] Thomas Kirby had grown up in Philadelphia and moved his family to New York in 1876, in the years prior to starting the AAA, he worked at various auction firms and importers in New York. [5]
In November 1935, his auction house, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, sold his paintings and furniture for $276,145. [50] The sale included two Hoppner portraits, a half-length portrait of Miss Rich, a young woman in a white gown, and the painter's study of the 2nd Earl of Chichester , painted about 1795.
The Bard Brothers—Painting America under Steam and Sail, Abrams, New York 1997 ISBN 0-8109-1240-6 James Bard at American Art Gallery Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels , Stanton, NY 1895, republished as American Steam Vessels—The Classic Illustrations , New York, Dover 2003, ISBN 0-486-42330-1
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1990 - The contemporary print market suffered badly in that year's spring auction at Sotheby's and Christie's as a major recession hit the country. Art was quickly devalued, with numerous auction lots passed on. Printmaking by then, however, had become an integral part of the art scene in America, of interest to and challenging many important ...
An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an ...
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